My previous Emacs version was 24.5 I believe. I realized that Emacs starts up normally exactly when the path to the working directory contains an accented letter. For example if I start emacs in the folder "D:\a\" it displays the error, but if I start it in "D:\á\" it works. So this was what distinguished those files from each other. 2016-11-27 4:30 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii : > > From: Márton Marczell > > Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:58:23 +0100 > > Cc: 25038@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > I do not recall this error in previous Emacs versions. > > What was the previous version of Emacs you used? And was that also on > Windows 10? >